Sholto Douglas

And the entire process, I've always thought like, oh, there's a...

If I just cold email them, it's like a 2% chance they say yes.

If I include this list, there's a 10% chance.

Because otherwise, you go through their inbox and every 34 seconds, there's an interview for whatever podcast, interview for whatever podcast.

And every single time I've done this, they've said yes.

Yeah, exactly.

You ask great questions.

If you do everything, you'll win.

But you literally have to dig in the same hole for like 10 minutes.

Or in that case, make a list of sample questions for them to get past their not an idiot list.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

For context, by the way, Sholto was one seat away as he was the next person in line to go to the Olympics for fencing.

Mutational load is a thing, man.

Um, it's interesting when like, you just like find about peers, uh, people's prior lives and it's like, oh, you know, this guy was almost an Olympian.

This other guy was whatever, you know what I mean?

Um, okay.

Let's talk about interoperability.

Um,

I actually want to stay on the brain stuff as a way to get into it for a second.